171 pages : 23 cm

A collection of humorous poems and drawings

Includes index

Advice -- Allison Beals and her 25 eels -- Alphabalance -- Bad cold -- Battle in the sky -- Bear, the fire, and the snow -- Best mask? -- Big eating contest -- Bituminous? -- Blood-curdling story -- Body language -- Camp wonderful -- Carrots -- Castle -- Cat, a kid and a mom -- Cat jacks -- Cereal -- Christmas dog -- Glean Gene -- Closet full of shoes -- Complainin' Jack -- Cookwitch sandwich -- Crazy dream -- Crystal ball -- Dancin' in the rain -- Danny O'Dare -- Deadly eye -- Dentist Dan -- Description -- Diving board -- Don the Dragon's birthday -- Eggs rated -- Every lunchtime -- Falling up -- Feeding time -- Folks inside -- Foot repair -- Forgetful Paul Revere -- Former foreman's story -- Furniture bash -- Gardener -- Glub, glub -- Gnome, the gnat, and the gnu --

Golden Goose -- Hand holding -- Hard to please -- Haunted -- Headless town -- Headphone Harold -- Help! -- Hi-monster -- Human balloon -- Hungry kid island -- Hypnotized -- Ice cream stop -- Imagining -- In the land of -- James -- Kanga Ruby -- Keepin' count -- Keep-out house -- Little hoarse -- Little pig's treat -- Long-Leg Lou and Short-Leg Sue -- Long scarf -- Lyin' Larry -- Mari-Lou's ride -- Medusa -- Mirror, mirror -- Mister Moody -- Molly's folly -- Monkey -- Morgan's curse -- Mummy -- Music lesson -- My sneaky cousin -- My nose garden -- My robot -- Nap taker -- Needles and pins -- New world -- No -- No grown-ups -- No thank you -- Noise day -- Nope -- Obedient -- Ooh! -- One out of sixteen -- People zoo -- Pinocchio -- Plugging in -- Poison tester -- Porky -- Quality time -- Reachin' Richard -- Red flowers for you -- Remote-a-Dad --

Rotten convention -- Runners -- Sack race -- Safe? -- Scale -- Screamin' Millie -- Settin' around -- Shanna in the sauna -- Sharing -- Shoe talk -- Short kid -- Show fish -- Sidewalking -- Smile makers -- Snowball -- Somethin' new -- Sorry I spilled it -- Spoiled brat -- Stone airplane -- Stork story -- Strange restaurant -- Stupid pencil maker -- Sun hat -- Sybil the Magician's last show -- Tattooin' Ruth -- Tell me -- They say I have -- Three O'Clock -- Three stings -- Tongue sticker-outer -- Toy eater -- Turkey? -- Unfair -- Use for a moose -- Voice -- Warmhearted -- Wastebasket brother -- Weavers -- Web-foot woe -- Weird-bird -- We're out of paint, so -- When I was your age -- Why is it? -- Woulda-coulda-shoulda -- Writer waiting -- Yuck

Drawings by Shel Silverstein

Maine Student Book Award, 1998

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